This art piece was for a photo identity project where I was trying to understand myself. In the photographs I took on the role as the “perfect housewife.” I am always smiling and never talking, so in the photos I’m wearing a smiling mask with the mouth stitched closed with thread. The photographs of me are displayed with pictures of other "happy" housewives. All of the pictures are displayed on a cloth and are stitched to the fabric, so that it is displayed like a quilt. The piece was both personal and subjective. Even though I was raised to go to college and get a good job. In the end I’m supposed to end up being the “perfect housewife.” To this day it is still females’ gender role to be housewives. They have to learn all of the essentials such as: cooking, cleaning, and taking good care of your husband. As I started the art piece I wanted to make everything perfect and symmetrical. Having images alternate perfectly and having them the same distance apart with close stitching. But as I started working on it, I also started to subconsciously rebel. I changed the sizes of the pictures and placed them all over. I didn’t want to stitch perfectly around and instead used the stitching more as to connect the work. The title is a question because I wanted to scare the viewer. We have been raised to think that women should be that way, but seeing one with a mask gives the idea she is no longer herself. I want female viewers to want to rebel a little and men to feel uncomfortable and question if that’s what they really want from the other sex.